info on channa aurantimaculata

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hi guys, i'm planning to get one of these guys and would like to get some info on them especially some hands on experience with keeping them.. i've actually seen some pics of these guys and thought they were channa barcas before.. but recently i've learned that aurantimaculata was their true scientic name..

any one keep these guys? what is their max size and how aggressive are they? what is their diet? has anybody ever got them of feeders?
 
kido said:
hi guys, i'm planning to get one of these guys and would like to get some info on them especially some hands on experience with keeping them.. i've actually seen some pics of these guys and thought they were channa barcas before.. but recently i've learned that aurantimaculata was their true scientic name..

any one keep these guys? what is their max size and how aggressive are they? what is their diet? has anybody ever got them of feeders?
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hi!!!! brudder kido, i just bought one 4" channa auranti. yesterday.

from wat i read about them, e max size is about 40cm in the wild. they are also quite aggressive. as for their diet, i fed her with feeder platies which is about half her size. i place total 6 platies last nite and she took 4 of them till today....very big appetite....will take some pixs when i am free... :)
 
thanks for the reply, what fish do you keep yours with? i'm planning to keep mine with an endlicheri of the same size and some redhooks and black barred silver dollars.. do you think this will work? is your aggressive towards its tankmates?
 
kido said:
thanks for the reply, what fish do you keep yours with? i'm planning to keep mine with an endlicheri of the same size and some redhooks and black barred silver dollars.. do you think this will work? is your aggressive towards its tankmates?
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currently she is too small to house with the rest of my fishes....definitely will become feeder snakehead to them...so i house her separately. should be no problem if you house your snake head with fishes around her size. but do take note they can deliver very nasty bite to your other tankmates. :)
 
thanks aapl76, hey could you post some pics of yours? how big is she now?
 
aapl76 said:
hi!!!! brudder kido, i just bought one 4" channa auranti. yesterday.

from wat i read about them, e max size is about 40cm in the wild. they are also quite aggressive. as for their diet, i fed her with feeder platies which is about half her size. i place total 6 platies last nite and she took 4 of them till today....very big appetite....will take some pixs when i am free... :)
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bro appl76, where did you buy this from. been looking for this a long long time.
 
Hi Kido,

From my experience with Channa auratimaculata, they can be quite aggresive fishes... but still capable of being kept in community tanks w/ other fish. beleive it can be sucessfully done, if you choose appropiate fish as tankmates, and acheive the "right balance" in your tank. I have kept them in both, community & species tank. Fish I've housed with before were arowana, stingrays, gars, bichirs, dats, perch, ATF, FRT and others. :)

As for their diet, I have fed raw shrimp, krill (freeze dried), Hikari Gold pellets, earthworms/nightcrawlers, freshly killed mealworms, frozen fish, and crickets. I am not sure what their true max size is?... I've also heard/read it to be 40cm/ 16inch?... but I know for certain, that they grow larger than this. (know & seen some in the 17-18"+ range) :grinyes:

I hope that this has been some help to you, but if you have any other questions you'd like to ask... go ahead and feel free to PM me. Good luck! :cheers:
 
PhullTank57 said:
Hi Kido,

From my experience with Channa auratimaculata, they can be quite aggresive fishes... but still capable of being kept in community tanks w/ other fish. beleive it can be sucessfully done, if you choose appropiate fish as tankmates, and acheive the "right balance" in your tank. I have kept them in both, community & species tank. Fish I've housed with before were arowana, stingrays, gars, bichirs, dats, perch, ATF, FRT and others. :)

As for their diet, I have fed raw shrimp, krill (freeze dried), Hikari Gold pellets, earthworms/nightcrawlers, freshly killed mealworms, frozen fish, and crickets. I am not sure what their true max size is?... I've also heard/read it to be 40cm/ 16inch?... but I know for certain, that they grow larger than this. (know & seen some in the 17-18"+ range) :grinyes:

I hope that this has been some help to you, but if you have any other questions you'd like to ask... go ahead and feel free to PM me. Good luck! :cheers:
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thanks for the info :) .. those are great auranti's you got there :headbang2

i'll try to put her together with my endlicheri, they are both almost the same size.. hope it works out since i've heard from others that they tend to be aggressive towards tankmates that look like snakeheads :idea:

do you think aggression differs by gender? could a female be more passive than a male? and what temp you do keep yours in? i've heard that they should be in cold water since they have a hybernation period in assam?
 
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